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Volume 10 Number 01 CAKE AND COCKHORSE BANBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AUTUMN 1985. PRICE fl.OO VOLUME 10. NUMBER 1 ISSN 0522-0823 Bun6ury Historicuc Society President: The Lord Saye and Sele Chairman: D. E. M. Fiennes, Woadmill Farm, Broughton, Banbury. Tel: Banbury 58898 Deputy Chairman: J.S.W. Gibson, Harts Cottage, Church Hanborough, Oxford. OX7 2AB. Magazine Editor: D.A. Hitchcox, 1 Dorchester Grove, Broughton Road, Banbury. Tel: Banbury 53733 Hon. Secretary: Hon. Treasurer: Mrs Sarah Gosling, A. Essex-Crosby, Banbury Museum, 3 Brantwood Court, 8 Horsefair, Banbury Banbury. (Tel: 59855) (Tel: 56238) Programme Secretary: Hon. Research Adviser: Miss P. Reuold M.A. F.R.Hist.S. J.S.W. Gibson, 51 Woodstock Close, Harts. Cottage, Oxford OX2 8DD. Church Hanborough, Oxford OX7 2AB. (Tel: Oxford 53937) (Tel: Freeland (0993)882982) Committee Members: Dr E. Asser, Mrs J.P. Bowes, Mrs N.M. Clifton Mrs C. Jakeman, Dr J.S. Rivers, Miss M. Stanton Details about the Society’s activities and publications can be found on the inside back cover Printed by: Overthorpe Printing Company Limited. 20 Thorpe Place, Banbury. cake und Cockfiorse The Magazine of the Banbury Historical Society. Issued three times a year. Volume 10 Number 1 Autumn 1985 J.S.W. Gibson The 'Wheatsheaf' and the 'Adam and Eve' 2 in Restoration Banbury J.P. Bowes How Horley Church Gained its Clock 8 Ted Clark The Banbury Fool 10 Veronica Butt Banbury Theatre and the Jackmans 12 J.S. W. Gibson Aynho and Croughton Inhabitants in 1642 17 P. Renold From the early Banbury Guardian 19 Society's Publications 22 Book Review 24 ~~ Winter Programme 24 Volume 10 begins with a pot pourri of articles some of which are submitted by our regular contributors, others are, as it were, making their maiden speeches. I hope the efforts of the latter group will encourage others to put their research and interests on paper and offer them for publication. Our last issue contained a number of changes to our Committee; this edition has but one. Our Chairman, Mr Geoffrey de C. Parmiter, has moved from Banbury after serving on our Committee for more than eight years. Our best wishes go with him. Our new Chairman is long-serving committee member David Fiennes. D.A.H. Cover illustration: Old Mettle in a Straw Bonnet 1 THE WHEATSHEAF' AND THE 'ADAM AND EVE' IN RESTORATION BANBURY The last surviving Subsidy Roll for Banbury is dated 29th October, 1663, and lists some forty townspeople who together paid €15. 4s. for the borough.' The contribution called for was 8s. in the pound on land or, in the case of valuation of goods, 16s. on €3. Although this was theoretically a tax on income, in fact the sums to be paid had long before become stereotyped and bore no relation to the rent realisable on land owned or the profit on goods. Most of the taxpayers are grouped in pairs, with the implication these might be business partners, though I have not followed this through to any proof. Even in Banbury most were taxed on land, but there were five payments on goods. One of these was by Mr Nathaniel Vivers and Mr John Westmacott. Recently Joyce Hoad has published abstracts of evidence given in some Chancery lawsuits relating to north Oxfordshire, and by coincidence two of those involved were these two men, with some indication of where in the town each lived. It seemed worthwhile gathering together various sources to build up the picture, especially as the location of two Banbury inns can be established with some certainty. The earlier lawsuit is dated 1665, It was brought by Thomas Hunt, of Banbury, esquire, against John Westmacott. The latter is first recorded in Banbury when his son John was baptised in January 1654/?5 and children continued at intervals until 1673. Eleanor wife of Henry Westma- cott was buried in March 1656/7 and Henry himself two years later - maybe they were his parents. In 1661 Westmacott contributed 15s. to the Free and Voluntary Present to King Charles 11. The highest from a townsman was f3, and the majority 10s. or less, so this was reasonably generous and presumably indicates some prosperity at that time. The Chancery case relates to two messuages in Banbury, one Westmacott's own dwelling house, another adjoining it being an inn called the 'Sheafe'. Though the document says this was in the tenure of William Butler, the Hearth Taxes of 1662 and 1665 show John Butler was Westmacott's neighbour - in 1662 each house had six hearths, but by 1665 Butler had lost one and Westrnacott ~o.In the event John Butler re- , mained the innkeeper for many years, as his wife Mary, 'at the Wheat Sheffef was buried in May 1679, and he himself 'at ye Wheat Sheafe' in September 1699. The burials of two strangers from the 'Sheaffe' or 'Wheatshefe' in 1680/1 and 1692/3 show that despite its few hearths it was substantial enough to offer accommodation. The gist of the case was that Thomas Hunt was interested in buying Westmacott's own house to live in, The Sheaf was to be included in the purchase. The two were subject to an indenture made on 5th Decem- ber 16 Charles I1 (1664).6 presumably for a mortgage, which Hunt would 2 purchase for €265. in trust for his heirs. Included in the deal was "one halfe of that yard or backsyd belonging to the house called the Sheafe and the use of the plumpe [sic] therein being and a way by the gate of the Sheafe and in and through the stables of the Sheafe into the Castle Way next there- unto adjoyning together with a liberty of erecting an house of office in the yard of the Sheafe to the proper and several use of T. H. , etc., . and J. W. did promise T. H. that he would by 25th March convert the Sheafe into a private house and that he J.W. would inhabit therein." This was an integral part of the agreement, as Hunt "being addicted to a studious life could not brooke the noises of an Inn immediately adjoining to the said house". But now Hunt "had notice that one Wm. Butler then occupyer of the house called the Sheafe being an Innkeeper and using the same as an Inn and house of publick recepton, did claime an interest in the Sheafe for eleven years to come by a. lease by J.W. before his contract with T.H. It What was worse, Hunt was being asked to pay half the cost of repairing the pump and paving the communal yard. He had even paid several f31 instalments of rent. The case is further complicated by another contract taken out by Westmacott with one John Crofts, clerk, to buy the house for f265, meanwhile asking Hunt to repair the house. Westmacott's reply, if there was one, does not survive, so of course we only see the case against him. which not surprisingly makes it seem that he had been promising Hunt more than he could deliver. The rights and wrongs of the case are really immaterial - what it does is indicate the location of the Sheaf or Wheatsheaf inn in late seventeenth century Banbury. The Castle Way would have been the main entrance to the recently demolished castle, leading off the centre of the northern side of the market place. The frontage of the inn and the entrance to its yard were probably on the market place, with a rear entrance/exit on to Castle Way - very useful for carters unable to turn their horses and carts in a restricted space. It is not surprising that Thomas Hunt was of studious nature with a desire for quiet, nor that Westmacott was taken to Chancery, for Hunt was a distinguished barrister and member of Gray's Inn. Born in London about 1627, he became a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. He had come to Banbury about 1660, where he followed his profession. Four children were born to him between 1664 and 1671. It is puzzling that he does not appear amongst payers of the Hearth Tax of 1662 or 1665 (nor as a contributor to the 1661 Present to the King). What is known of him, however, suggests that Banbury's puritan reputation would have appealed to him. Charles I1 appointed him to be lord-chief-baron of Ireland, but the patent was superseded while he was on his way there, at the instance, it appears, of the Duke of York, to whom he was not acceptable. Anthony Wood records he was "famous in his generation among certain schismatical persons for several things he hath written and publishedt1. These included Great and Weighty Considerations relating to the Duke of York, or 3 Successor to the Crown, &c., considered, in 1680, though it is not clear if this was before or after his loss of office in Ireland. To this loss Wood attributed Hunt becoming "one of the worst and most inveterate enemies of church and state", and other royalists, such as Dryden, wrote against him. Upon the Duke's accession as James 11, Hunt prudently retired to Holland. and afterwards died on his passage thence back to England in company of William of Orange. ' His widow continued to live in the town, where her burial occurs in 1706, "Madam Hunt, wid., out of Sheep Street" - if this was where the family ended up after the abortive Market Place property negotiation, one wonders if it can have been much quieter! Her monumental inscription in Banbury church ('lost with many others on its demolition in 1790) was recorded by the antiquary Richard Rawlinson: "In Sir Robert Dashwood's Chancel1 on a flat black marble - M.S.
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